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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.15 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.15 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4798e59c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.15 @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@ +(Message texhax/v96:15) +Resent: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:18:37 +0000 +Resent: texhax-outgoing@nottingham.ac.uk +Resent: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:16:56 +0000 +Resent: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk +From texhax-digest-owner@nottingham.ac.uk Thu Dec 19 18:12:44 1996 +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA20933 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:43 GMT +Received: from majordom by nottingham.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.58 #10) + id 0vamxI-0004Im-00; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:28 +0000 +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #15 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest +Precedence: bulk +Message-Id: <E0vamxI-0004Im-00@nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:28 +0000 + + +TeXhax Digest Thursday, 19 December 1996 Volume 96 : Number 015 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + New version of AMS-LaTeX released + Latex + e-TeX is released + Plain TeX query about \font + correct way to write Makefile? + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> +Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500 (EST) +Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released + +An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has +been posted. + +This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have +not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention +when time becomes available. The documentation has been extensively +revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the +READ.ME file. In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version +of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994. + +The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp, +or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection. +The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are +relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site): + + location on e-math: location on CTAN: + + /pub/tex/amslatex under macros/latex/packages/amslatex + +The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers +and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations: + + location on e-math: location on CTAN: + + /pub/tex/amsfonts under fonts/amsfonts + /pub/tex/amsltx11 under macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex + /pub/tex/amstex under macros/amstex + +At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de; +they will propagate to the mirrors in due course. + +Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes +are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and +a separate announcement will be made when these are posted. + + +------------------------------ + +From: zadokh@rafael.co.il (Zadok Hougui) +Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:23:22 +0200 +Subject: Latex + +Hi +Do you know where I could download a copy of Latex for use on an IBM PC +compatible? (for a windows 3.1 or windows 95 environment) +Thanks +Zadok +========================================================================== +Sadok Hougui +32 Lehi St. +Kiryat Bialik, 27000 +Israel + +Home phone: (972)-4-8740167 +e-mail: zadokh@rafael.co.il + + +------------------------------ + +From: Philip Taylor <CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:17 GMT +Subject: e-TeX is released + +Dear Colleagues -- + +I am delighted to be able to tell you that after a protracted period of +design and development, e-TeX is now formally released. In summary, e-TeX +is an evolutionary (rather that revolutionary) development of TeX, and is +100%-compatible, including compatibility at the level of the TRIP test. +However, it is also capable of operating in "extended" mode, in which case +it adds approximately 30 new primitives to the TeX language whilst remaining +completely compatible with TeX if none of the new primitives are used, and in +"enhanced" mode, in which case it adds functionality (for the first release, +TeX--XeT) at the expense of compatibility. + +Reference implementations are available for VMS (both VAX & AXP) and MS/DOS, +the former implementation being primarily the work of Christian Spieler whilst +the latter is the work of Peter Breitenlohner. As this message is being +sent to TeX-Implementors as well as to the NTS and TeX lists, we hope that new +implementations will become available in the near future. + +For further information on e-TeX, and for access to the sources and reference +implementations, please see: + + http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/e-TeX/ + +Philip Taylor, +for and on behalf of the e-TeX team / NTS group. + +------------------------------ + +From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) +Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:45:13 GMT +Subject: Plain TeX query about \font + +If you do: + + \font\titlefont=cmssdc10 + \ifx\titlefont\nullfont + \wlog{Using \string\nullfont}% + \fi + \bye + +You get the following message in the log file: + + Using \nullfont + +But if there is a blank line between the \font... and the \ifx... this does not +happen. I would not expect to get the message anyway so why does it happen and +why does inserting a blank line cure it? + +Thanks in advance for any help. + +Colin Mason. + +------------------------------ + +From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com> +Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:30:11 -0800 +Subject: correct way to write Makefile? + +What's the correct way to create a Makefile for LaTeX? +I'm not sure how to capture the business about having to run: + latex (Extract citations.) + bibtex (Create the bibliography.) + latex (Incorporate bibliography.) + latex (Resolve references.) + +Thanks, +/7\'7 Steve Kelem (408)879-5347 Steve.Kelem@xilinx.com +\\ ` Xilinx FAX: (408)377-3259 +// 2100 Logic Drive +\\/.\ San Jose, California 95124 + +So far, I have the following, but it doesn't capture the above requirements. + +.SUFFIXES : $(LATEX_SUFFIXES) $(SUFFIXES) + +LATEX_SUFFIXES = .aux .bbl .blg .dvi .ilg .idx .ind .lof .log .lot .toc + +all : pop.ps + +%.ps : %.dvi + dvips OPTIONS $*.dvi + + +%.ind : %.idx + makeindex $* + +%.bbl : %.aux + bibtex $* + +%.dvi %.aux : %.tex + latex $*.tex + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #15 +**************************** + + +About TeXhax... + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Subscription and unsubscription requests: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk + containing only the line + subscribe texhax + or + unsubscribe texhax +If you have problems with un/subscribing, +please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@TUG.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1850 Union Street, #1637 +San Francisco CA 94123 (phone: 1 415 982 8449, fax: 1 415 982 8559) + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. 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